Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski

Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski (22 July 1881-1 July 1942) was a general of Poland who was President of Poland from 25 to 26 September 1939, succeeding Ignacy Moscicki and preceding Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz.

Biography
Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski was born on 22 July 1881 in Maksymowka, Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a family of Polish nobility. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, and in 1918 he was arrested by the Soviet Union's Cheka as a member of the Polish Military Organization. During the Polish-Soviet War, he was the aide-de-camp of Jozef Pilsudski and fought in the Vilna Operation and the Battle of Warsaw in 1920. He was one of the organizers of the May Coup in 1926 alongside Pilsudski, and on 17 September 1939 he was nominated as President of Poland by Ignacy Moscicki after he resigned. Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski was president of Poland for just one day, and Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz was chosen as the new president instead. Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski became the ambassador to Cuba under the Polish government-in-exile, and in 1942 he leapt from the upper story of a New York City apartment, depressed about the fall of his country and the stress of his life.